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Singapore Passes Bill Giving MAS Powers to Set Loss Absorption Rules for D-SIBs

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What's happening

Singapore's Parliament passed the Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Bill on 6 October 2026, giving the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) the power to require domestically systemically important banks (D-SIBs) to hold additional loss-absorbing resources. MAS said it plans to apply the Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) framework to those banks, enabling the regulator to set specific requirements for capital instruments that can absorb losses in a crisis.

Why it's trending

Regulators are moving to harden bank resilience after global focus on systemic risk and TLAC frameworks increased scrutiny of big banks' loss-absorption tools.

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plain-English explainer

If you follow big banks in Singapore, here is what the new MAS TLAC power means in one paragraph: D-SIBs can now be told to hold extra instruments that regulators can write down or convert to absorb losses, because Parliament gave MAS the legal authority via the Financial Services and Markets (Amendment) Bill on 6 October 2026.

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